Category: Busking

Diary Of A Busker Day 2530 Friday April 25th 2025 Chichester.   Back to Chidester, as the locals call it, and unusually there’s no one at the top spot, Chichester’s butterless Cross. I don’t even bother looking around North or East Street, as this’ll do fine. Coinage is slow to start but picks up after an hour or so. A… Read more →

Diary Of A Busker day 2529 Thursday April 24th 2025 Winchester.   For the third day on the trot, no one at the top spot so it’s mine, all mine! I open with La Vie En Rose then it’s Waterloo Sunset and a little bit better than yesterday, thank fuck. I’ve now come up with an approximation of the end… Read more →

Diary Of A Busker Day 2528 Wednesday April 23rd 2025 Winchester.   Late afternoon and yet again no one at the top spot…and I have a stroke of luck. A bunch of tourists emerge from the alleyway and stop to listen to the tour guide rant on about the monument behind me. I finish whatever I was playing and go… Read more →

Diary Of A Busker Day 2527 Tuesday April 22nd 2025 Winchester.   At around 9:30 in the morning, while taking the coinage to the bank, the bloke who sings old songs to backing tracks was just setting up at The Buttercross so I waited until mid-afternoon before I ventured in, when I reckoned he’d be gone. I started off by… Read more →

Diary Of A Busker Day 2526 Sunday April 12th 2025 Winchester.   The rain stopped me coming in until quite late. It’s just before 4 o’clock and Gareth’s almost finished packing his stuff away at the top spot. Unfortunately, he got caught in the downpour coming from the train station. I have a quick look through the alley way to… Read more →

Diary Of A Busker Day 2524 Friday April 11th 2025 Winchester.   Two days ago I had 18 year old student Alex Greenwood and two of his mates round the house to film me for a documentary Alex is doing on me. Today I’m meeting him at midday at The Buttercross so he can film me playing there, that’s if… Read more →